Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot